Barack Obama is often described as some kind of Niebuhrian, a tag he has encouraged by describing Reinhold Niebuhr as…
Niebuhrian in the White House
theology
Not a foundation but a raft
Why should we conclude that God's love for human beings takes the form of attachment love as opposed, for instance,…
Justice and rights-talk in liberal democracies
Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a profoundly ambitious book. His normative aspiration is nothing less than "speaking up…
Justice and theism
The central claim of Nicholas Wolsterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is that justice is based on natural human rights that inhere…
A public theologian
Americans have elected the most theologically astute president since Jimmy Carter.
Framing the middle
From the opening pages, my historical antennae quickly began to quiver. Taylor’s book works in a space far removed from…